Description: This round table will highlight innovative approaches, partnerships, and community-driven strategies that are helping rural communities prevent and respond to opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders, and to identify practical actions that rural communities can take to strengthen prevention, treatment, recovery, and long-term resilience.
Target audience: Rural health professionals, behavioral health and SUD providers, public health professionals, community leaders, people with lived experience, peer support organizations, first responders, educators, faith-based organizations, policymakers, researchers, and other rural community partners.
Presenter(s): Ellen Piekalkiewicz, Philip Rutherford, and Kristina Bryant, MBA